{"id":3187,"date":"2022-01-10T14:55:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:55:45","slug":"flippin-b-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/flippin-b-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Flippin, B. J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>B. J. Flippin<\/strong>, the oldest living child of the above, was born in Lauderdale<br \/>\nCounty, October 4, 1841, was raised on a farm, and had few educational<br \/>\nadvantages. He remained at home until 1861 when he went into the Confederate<br \/>\nArmy as second-lieutenant in the First Tennessee Heavy Artillery, and after<br \/>\nthe battle of Vicksburg he was made captain of Company F. Fifteenth Tennessee<br \/>\nCavalry, and held that rank to the end. In 1864 he was captured in northern<br \/>\nMississippi, and held three months at Fort Delaware, but was exchanged at City<br \/>\nPoint, Va., then re-entered the service and made the final surrender at<br \/>\nGainesville, Ala. Since the war his chief business has been railroading &#8212;<br \/>\nten years of the time in Mississippi, and for three years he merchandised<br \/>\nthere. In 1879 he moved to Haywood County, and farmed; in 1882 he took charge<br \/>\nof the station at Flippin, where he is also engaged in merchandising. In 1865<br \/>\nhe married Miss Neeley Keeton, by whom he has two sons: Robert K., a student<br \/>\nat McKenzie, and Benjamin M., educated at Janesville, Wis., and operator and<br \/>\nrailroad clerk at Ripley, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Flippin are both Missionary<br \/>\nBaptists. While in Haywood county, he was road commissioner and tax<br \/>\ncollector, and for sixteen years has been in the employ of two railroad<br \/>\ncompanies, as brakeman, yard-master, agent and conductor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B. J. Flippin, the oldest living child of the above, was born in Lauderdale County, October 4, 1841, was raised on a farm, and had few educational advantages. He remained at home until 1861 when he went into the Confederate <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/flippin-b-j\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-flippin"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}